Our expert guest is Stefania Druga, whose research on AI education can inform educators in all subjects and grade levels.AI is a “hot topic” in education, but not well understood. In this webinar, Stefania will help us separate the hype from the true educational value of AI now and in the future, and point to resources that educators can use today. Stefania will also share her research and insight on how children view AI, smart toys, and other intelligent agents that are increasingly common in their lives. This webinar concluded on Friday, May 24th 9AM -10AM PDT.
More about Stefania
Stefania Druga is the creator of Cognimates, platform for AI education for families and a Ph.D candidate at the University of Washington. Her research on AI education started during her master in Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab. Currently, she is also a Weizenbaum research fellow in the Critical AI Lab and an assistant professor at NYU ITP and RISD, teaching graduate students how to hack smart toys for AI education. She co-founded Hackidemia, a global community for maker education present in 40 countries, Afrimakers, initiative for learning by solving global challenges in 10 African countries and MakerCamp , global camps for learning how to build and run maker spaces. During her research in the past two years, she has observed in longitudinal studies how 450 children from 7 countries are growing up with AI and how they can acquire AI literacy concepts through creative learning activities with the open source AI coding platform she has created.